2023 Best Manufacturing Engineering Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Manufacturing Engineering for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 947 people earned their degree in manufacturing engineering, making the major the 243rd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, manufacturing engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $70,583 and had an average of $26,962 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 39 manufacturing engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $95,914 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Manufacturing Engineering for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in manufacturing engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great manufacturing engineering programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the manufacturing engineering program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Manufacturing Engineering for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree vets studying manufacturing engineering.

Top 2 Best Manufacturing Engineering Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region

1

Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts

15 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Boston University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Manufacturing Engineering for a Master’s. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s manufacturing engineering degrees to 13 students in 2020-2021.

Boston U also made our “Best Manufacturing Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list, coming in at #2.According to our most recent data, Boston U supports 32,718 students, and 15 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 1 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $25,162. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

[Read full report on veteran student life at Boston U]](/colleges/boston-university/student-life/veterans/)

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Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, Massachusetts

77 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

$15,341 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Worcester Polytechnic Institute. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Manufacturing Engineering for a Master’s list. Worcester Polytechnic Institute is a medium-sized school located in Worcester, Massachusetts that handed out 9 masters’s manufacturing engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at WPI, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Manufacturing Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, WPI supports 6,920 students, and 77 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 47 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $15,341. During this same period, 7 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

[Read full report on veteran student life at WPI]](/colleges/worcester-polytechnic-institute/student-life/veterans/)

• Best Manufacturing Engineering Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.